Asm. Freddie Rodriguez

Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the identification and the apprehension of persons responsible for specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of persons, particularly children and dependent adults. Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish within the center and to maintain an online, automated computer system designed to effect an immediate law enforcement response to reports of missing persons, and requires the center to make information authorized for dissemination that is contained in law enforcement reports regarding missing or unidentified persons accessible to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. This bill would require a general acute care hospital and an acute psychiatric hospital, when feasible, to report to law enforcement, within 5 business days after a patient's admission, if the hospital does not know the identity of the patient and the patient is unable to identify themselves and an emergency contact due to a medical or psychiatric condition. The bill would require law enforcement to attempt to identify the patient using available law enforcement resources, including taking the patient's fingerprints and search the National Crime Information Center database, the National Institute of Justice National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database, and, if the patient appears to be fewer than 21 years of age, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database. The bill would require a law enforcement agency, if able to identify the patient, to provide the hospital with the patient's identity or an emergency contact person, as defined. By placing additional duties on local law enforcement agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Existing federal law requires a commercially produced firearm to be etched or otherwise inscribed by the manufacturer with a unique serial number. Existing state law prohibits the alteration, removal, or obliteration of that serial number. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a felony. Existing law also prohibits the transfer or possession of a firearm with a serial number that has been altered, removed, or obliterated. A violation of this prohibition is punishable as a misdemeanor. Existing law requires a person, other than a licensed manufacturer, who assembles or manufactures a firearm, or any person who possesses an unserialized firearm, to obtain a unique serial number from the Department of Justice and to inscribe that serial number on the firearm, as specified. A violation of this requirement is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would make the possession of an unserialized firearm or possession of a firearm with an altered, removed, or obliterated serial number punishable as a felony. By increasing the punishment for these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Existing law prohibits certain acts related to the exchange of money or other consideration for sex. Existing law authorizes a county to impose a fee for the administrative costs of booking or otherwise processing an arrested person upon the arresting agency. Prior law required a person convicted of a crime to be ordered to reimburse the arresting agency for these booking costs. Existing law makes a person who is driving under the influence and whose intoxicated driving proximately causes an incident liable for the cost of the emergency response to that incident, as specified. This bill would make a person lawfully arrested for an offense as a sex purchaser, as defined, liable to the arresting agency for booking costs, as specified. The bill would authorize the arrest agency to collect booking costs, as specified, and would require the arresting agency to offer an administrative hearing to the arrested person.

Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, regulates common interest developments and associations, as defined. Existing law also regulates governing documents, as defined, and protects certain uses of a homeowner's separate property. That law, among other things, prohibits an association from restricting specified rights of a homeowner. These rights include the right to peacefully assemble, to invite public officials or other speakers to discuss matters of public interest, to distribute literature related to common interest development living, and to rent or lease a separate interest unless the governing document or amendment that restricts a homeowner's right to rent or lease their separate interest existed prior to the homeowner acquiring title to the separate interest. This bill would prohibit the governing documents from prohibiting a member or resident of a common interest development from using social media or other online resources to discuss specified issues even if the content is critical of the association or its governance, including, among other issues, development living and association elections. The bill would additionally prohibit an association from retaliating against a member or a resident for exercising certain rights, including the right to peacefully assemble or to use social media or other online resources to discuss certain issues. Under this bill, an owner of a separate interest in a common interest development would not be subject to a provision in a governing document that prohibits the rental or leasing of a portion of the owner-occupied separate interest for more than 30 days, without regard to whether such restriction existed at the time the homeowner acquired title to the separate interest. Existing law authorizes associations to establish penalties for violation of the governing documents, and regulates how an association may enforce such penalties. This bill would prohibit an association from taking any enforcement actions for the violation of governing documents during a declared emergency, as specified, except those actions relating to the homeowner's nonpayment of assessments, if the emergency makes it unsafe or impossible for the homeowner to either prevent or fix the violation.

Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law provides for the missions and functions of these segments, and states that the University of California has the sole authority in public higher education to award doctoral degrees in all fields of learning, except that it may agree with the California State University to award joint doctoral degrees in selected fields. However, existing law authorizes the California State University to offer doctoral programs in education, audiology, physical therapy, and occupational therapy without that agreement. This bill would authorize the California State University to award the Doctor of Public Health degree. The bill would require the Doctor of Public Health degree programs to be focused on health and scientific knowledge translation and transformative community leadership, and to be designed to address the community public health workforce needs of California and prepare qualified professionals to be leaders and experienced practitioners who apply their advanced knowledge in service to California's diverse communities. The bill would require each student in these degree programs to be charged fees comparable to, but no higher than, those fees charged for the Doctor of Public Health degree at the University of California.